Web Directions

Gabriel White — Sensing context in mobile design

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• By:jessie
• June 19, 2008
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 1.40pm.

• Audio record­ing of session
• Presentation slides
• Session descrip­tion
• About Gabriel White

Presentation slides

Session descrip­tion

Mainstream mobile devices are being loaded with sen­sors. These devices can be used to cre­ate expe­ri­ences that are tai­lored, adap­tive and respon­sive to the way peo­ple live and work. Location-​​awareness allows devices to respond to place, net­worked address books enable socially rich com­mu­ni­ca­tion expe­ri­ences, and motion and ges­tural sen­sors empower design­ers to respond to con­text of use. All these ele­ments are cre­at­ing a ’sen­si­tive ecosys­tem’; mobile devices that adapt grace­fully to con­text and use.

This pre­sen­ta­tion will explore some of the design and tech­nol­ogy trends that are shap­ing design for mobile devices, show exam­ples of devices and ser­vices that are start­ing to take advan­tage of these trends, then explain how design­ers need to rethink design prob­lems to take advan­tage of this tech­no­log­i­cal ground-​​shift.

About Gabriel White

Gabriel is a sea­soned inter­ac­tion designer and world trav­eler. Currently Interaction Design Director at Punchcut in San Francisco, Gabriel was a Principal Designer at Frog Design, led design teams at Motorola China, vis­ited Microsoft’s Research Lab in Beijing, and con­sulted in Australia.

With ten years’ expe­ri­ence in the design indus­try and a deep under­stand­ing of the mobile space, Gabriel is pas­sion­ate about cre­at­ing mean­ing­ful prod­ucts and ser­vices that help improve people’s lives. He has writ­ten for ACM Interactions Magazine, and pub­lishes reg­u­larly through his mobile design blog, Small Surfaces. Gabriel was the inter­ac­tion design lead for Motorola’s MotoFone, a phone designed specif­i­cally for poor, non-​​literate peo­ple in devel­op­ing countries.

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4 responses to “Gabriel White — Sensing context in mobile design”:

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